Personal Life
His personal motto is "Three Grand Qualifications to Success", in which he described as "The first is audacity, the second is audacity, and the third is audacity".
Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy (1913–1994), who was a British art historian and the director of the British Museum from 1974 until 1976, was Hennessy's grandson.
Hennessy died in 7 October 1891. He had married Catherine, the daughter of Sir Henry Low.
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